Language Arts & Disciplines

**INDIE BESTSELLER**A MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2023 by The Millions - B&N Best Books of 2023 - "Shaped by intellectual rigor and artistic grace ... McDonnell's portrait is vibrant, fluent, sensitive, and clarifying." -- Booklist, starred reviewAn intimate exploration of the life, craft, and...

Born a ward of the state in the State of Maine, the child of a Yankee blueblood mother, Dorothy (Collins) Rowell, and a Black Marine, Levi (Cowan) Wilson, from South Carolina, Victoria Rowell beat the odds that befalls many foster children. The Women Who...

The topic of this volume is the teaching and learning practices in the major and minor academic centers of renaissance Europe and their relevance for early modern intellectual history. Academic knowledge is here regarded not as a finished product but as a process, induced...

This book provides an account of the speech acts of modern Irish (assertive, directive, commissive, expressive, declarative, and indirect speech acts), and their various significant clausal / sentential constructions. The study is strongly descriptive in the first instance while delivering an analysis of these...

Featuring a three-prong approach on culture, communication, and creative problem solving, The Intercultural Communication Playbook, with its unique, user-friendly layout and presentation, highlights how active, imaginative, and productive problem-solving methods can transform the understanding of intercultural communication. This framework from authors Teri Kwal Gamble,...

Google is certainly a useful Internet search tool for general topics, but most of the information available on the Invisible Web can't be found through Google. This book explains the value of the Invisible Web and how to access it. Most students and researchers...

Author: Mark AmengualPublisher: Cambridge University PressPublished: 11/21/2024Pages: 856Binding Type: HardcoverWeight: 3.41lbsSize: 9.61h x 6.69w x 1.75dISBN: 9781009098601

Over ten years in the making, The Blakeneys: An Etymological, Ethnological, and Genealogical Study, by award-winning author and historian Colonel Lochlainn Seabrook, is the most detailed work ever undertaken on the origins and meaning of the Blakeney surname and family; a classic that will...

Fake news and misinformation is everywhere. Learn how to teach elementary students to locate reliable information, evaluate sources, and develop their writing skills in the classroom and in the library. Empower students to find and evaluate information with this practical guide to supporting classroom...

An essential introduction to the use and misuse of language within the criminal justice system, updated for a new generation. Does everyone understand the Miranda warning? Why do people confess to a crime they did not commit? Can linguistic experts identify who wrote an...

This is a study of a collection of oral compositions of the Rotenese of eastern Indonesia. Recited in semantic parallelism, these compositions require a strict pairing of all words to produce correspondingly ordered verses. These narrative verses create an elevated discourse-a 'scriptural voice'-intended to...

What use is physical chemistry to the student of biochemistry and biology? This central question is answered in this book mainly through the use of worked examples and problems. The book starts by introducing the laws of thermodynamics, and then uses these laws to...

Previous edition: New Password, White Plains, NY: Pearson/Longman, A2010.Author: Linda ButlerPublisher: Pearson Education ESLPublished: 03/26/2017Pages: 288Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.15lbsSize: 10.80h x 8.20w x 0.50dISBN: 9780134399393This title is not returnableThis title is only available via back order

Previous edition: New Password, White Plains, NY: Pearson/Longman, A2010.Author: Linda ButlerPublisher: Pearson Education ESLPublished: 09/08/2016Pages: 256Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 1.00lbsSize: 10.70h x 8.20w x 0.40dISBN: 9780134399379This title is not returnableThis title is only available via back order

Previous edition: New Password, White Plains, NY: Pearson/Longman, A2010.Author: Linda ButlerPublisher: Pearson Education ESLPublished: 09/09/2016Pages: 232Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.95lbsSize: 10.70h x 8.20w x 0.30dISBN: 9780134399355This title is not returnableThis title is only available via back order

Previous edition: New Password, White Plains, NY: Pearson/Longman, A2010.Author: Linda ButlerPublisher: Pearson Education ESLPublished: 03/17/2017Pages: 176Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.75lbsSize: 10.70h x 8.20w x 0.30dISBN: 9780134399348This title is not returnableThis title is only available via back order

The Osage language is a vital part of Osage identity. The language suffered rapid decline during the twentieth century, but the Osage people are taking significant steps to revitalize its use. To that end, this volume--the first ever introductory Osage grammar textbook--is a much-needed...

Long awaited new edition of this hands-on guide to writing like a journalist. Full of examples, exercises and practical advice, it now covers online presentation and social media too.Author: Anna McKanePublisher: Sage Publications LtdPublished: 12/20/2013Pages: 192Binding Type: PaperbackWeight: 0.65lbsSize: 9.40h x 6.60w x 0.40dISBN:...

The effects of colonialism in education and society have deep and difficult legacies. This book argues that it is necessary to better understand the deep roots of colonialism in order to realize justice and overturn forms of oppression in education policy, in classrooms, or...

The groundbreaking science of how and why we talk, and how this ability impacts every area of our lives Humans are the only species that can transform internal ideas into talk, whether through speech, writing, or sign language. But why do we have this...